For an opera derived from a French novel (Honoré de Balzac) by an English playwright (Edward Bond) and a German composer (Hans Werner Henze), The English Cat has had an…
Year: 2026
Japonisme and Jollity: Heinz Zednik’s Die Fledermaus returns to the New National Theatre Tokyo
The New National Theatre Tokyo ushered in the year with the seventh revival of Heinz Zednik’s celebrated 2006 production of Die Fledermaus. At the 24 January matinée, the auditorium shimmered…
Bel Cantanti Opera Offers Beautiful Russian Concert Ahead of Gala Performance Next Month
It’s not often that one gets to hear Russian music in the DMV, but Bel Cantanti’s latest concert at St. Dunstan’s Episcopal Church in Bethesda proves just how affecting this…
Opera Baltimore and the Reginald F. Lewis Museum present “Roots and Resonance: An Operatic Love Letter to Baltimore” on February 14th, 2026
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Megan Ihnen, Director of External Communications Website: www.operabaltimore.org Opera Baltimore and the Reginald F. Lewis Museum present “Roots and Resonance: An Operatic Love Letter to Baltimore” on February…
The Choral Arts Society of Washington and Washington Performing Arts Present Annual Living The Dream…Singing the Dream Concert
A choral tribute to the inclusive vision of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. at the Music Center at Strathmore on Sunday, February 15 at 7:00 p.m. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE …
The Breadth and Depth that Schubert Finds for the Voice: Christian Gerhaher at Wigmore Hall
Imagine: twenty-seven short pieces by the same composer, curated for an entire evening’s entertainment. What are we thinking here? Sonatas by Scarlatti, waltzes by Chopin? Grieg’s Lyric Pieces or Bartók’s…
A Staged German Requiem in Paris: Insula’s unforgettable Brahms
Stagings of Bach Passions are, if not the norm, certainly not unknown; and Insula showed how effective known music with projection can be in Matt Collishaw’s Sky Burial, a film…
Fire, Paprika and Pepper: Spices Galore with Rattle, Kopatchinskaya and the LSO
Songs my mother taught me: the title of the fourth in a cycle of gypsy songs by Dvořák, but this title also stands as a convenient coat hanger for so…
Cycle de berceuses: Sabine Devieilhe and Mathieu Pordoy at Wigmore Hall
This was recital programming of the very highest level, the first half a cycle of lullabies; the second a celebration of the female creatrix in Her various forms. It all…
The Makropulos Case with Simon Rattle and the LSO
Simon Rattle’s twin traversal of the Janáček operas in concert in London and onstage in Berlin has now reached The Makropulos Case in the former, Claus Guth’s staging for the…